Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully (Guitar)

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Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,

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His enemies say he's on their land.

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They got him outnumbered about a million to one,

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He got no place to escape to, no place to run.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,

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He's criticized and condemned for being alive.

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He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,

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He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,

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He's wandered the earth an exiled man.

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Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,

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He's always on trial for just being born.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,

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Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.

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Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.

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The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim

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That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,

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'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back

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And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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He got no allies to really speak of.

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What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.

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He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied

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But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,

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They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.

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Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep.

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They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,

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Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.

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He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,

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In bed with nobody, under no one's command.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,

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No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.

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He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,

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Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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What's anybody indebted to him for?

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Nothin', they say. He just likes to cause war.

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Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,

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They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.

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He's the neighborhood bully.

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What has he done to wear so many scars?

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Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?

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Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,

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Running out the clock, time standing still,

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Neighborhood bully.